Example sentences of "[be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Pressures on household and corporate borrowers have been eased significantly since last October by a series of interest rate reductions , which have reduced base rates by a cumulative four and a half percentage points to date . |
| 32 | The problem of lack of time has been eased to some degree by the setting up of communal kitchens like those in Lima , Peru . |
| 33 | Earlier funding difficulties [ see p. 37583 ] , had been eased in December 1990 with the successful raising of over £560,000,000 through a rights issue in Paris and London . |
| 34 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 35 | ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon . |
| 36 | The water shortage faced by thousands of refugees in Jordan has been eased with the help of the Oxford based charity Oxfam . |
| 37 | The gap left by the withdrawal of the worst examples has been filled with Class 312s , and ex-London Midland 310s . |
| 38 | If a high gloss or mirror finish is required , then it is necessary to use either a grainfiller to fill the pores of the wood , or to apply extra coats of finish , rubbing down between coats until the grain has been filled . |
| 39 | None of these posts has been filled , and it is now short of 27 professionals out of a complement of 119 — with little immediate prospect of filling the vacancies . |
| 40 | The front pages of official newspapers have been filled with tales of glorious national triumphs , offset by with a smattering of gloom from the West — unemployment in the US , drugs in Britain , and so on . |
| 41 | I saw yesterday' in Markstadt a shelter which has beds for 100 of these children ; 42 children had died in the last 24 hours , but these places had been filled up . |
| 42 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 43 | After a site has been filled in again only artefacts , notebooks and the photographic record remain to aid the archaeologist in the long post-excavation period when he or she has to decide what it all meant , and publish details of what was found . |
| 44 | The big cup with the chipped handle had been filled almost to its brim with milky cocoa . |
| 45 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 46 | The gaps between the walls of the coral skeleton have been filled with calcite , showing up as the lighter colours of the sections . |
| 47 | The empty chambers are usually supposed to have been filled with gas , which help to give the animal buoyancy , and via the siphuncle the animal can vary its buoyancy to control its position in the water column . |
| 48 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 49 | The mill pond still existed during the 1950s , but has now been filled in . |
| 50 | However , I nearly did n't make it as I neglected to register my willingness to take part with the organiser of the hospital team until all 32 places had been filled . |
| 51 | The entrance has been filled with stones , but I can see a sunken area inside making a small arena , in the centre of which there 's a red stone three feet high the shape of a cotton reel and , in a round black patch , evidence of a fire . |
| 52 | Those who have been filled with all the previous beatitudes of Christ now overflow in mercy to those around them . |
| 53 | But when the ways of making a living that are open to small organisms have all been filled , there are still prosperous livings to be made by larger organisms . |
| 54 | Then it had been filled again , but this time there were no soft fruits from her native land . |
| 55 | The remains of water-mills have been consistently removed ; the weirs which hold up river levels have been dismantled ; and mill-ponds and mill-races have been filled with the dredgings . |
| 56 | The wadi would rarely have been filled with water , but deep down , the soil was moist , and trees were able to drink from its reserve . |
| 57 | It was the best going I could hope to see , but just beyond that wall of water , minutes away , the ground became lacerated with gulleys , as if a maze of streams had scored the ground and had been filled with sand . |
| 58 | Many people grow up frightened of what may come after this life because their minds have been filled since childhood with ideas of hell and damnation , judgment and punishment . |
| 59 | There was a lot of straw in the mattress and it had been filled recently so that it was pleasantly responsive . |
| 60 | Here , the intergranular pores have been filled by an anhydrite cement leaving only leached porosity , and the sonic log displays a very clear downward-decreasing porosity profile in the uppermost unit of oolitic grainstone ( Fig. 18 ) . |